Well, she was certainly back a lot sooner than she’d expected. Here she was again, hunkered down in yet another small, unsavory part of the city, this one perhaps even seedier than the last. At this rate, she figured she might as well find herself a residence here and call it home, what with the unusually frequent visitations she was making to this district (if it could be called that) within the past day alone. As for the reason why she was back so soon? Of course, it was all thanks to her latest target, the infamous ARC who’d apparently gone rogue. He certainly knew his stuff…and how to give a person a proper run-around too. Astraea had to give him props for that one, for being able to evade her for this long…not to mention making flashy exits. And she’d been so convinced that she’d had him pinned too. Well, he was more capable than she'd been giving him credit for, that was for sure. She replayed the recent events in her mind, pondering on it momentarily: so, the man didn’t work alone after all. There was no way she was going to believe that the speeder waiting under the walkway had just happened to be there at exactly the right time and right place to whisk him off to safety. She’d have to keep that in mind next time she made her move; there was no way of knowing how many others there might possibly be at his beck and call.
When he had made his hasty getaway, Sole could have potentially thrown her off his trail for the next day or two; precious time to a bounty hunter. It seemed that luck had not completely abandoned her that day though – as the speeder sped away, she’d chanced a long shot with a tracking device, and to her mild surprise, it had apparently caught on and remained undetected, judging by the speed and direction the dot on her screen had been moving. Now, at least she had the advantage of knowing exactly where he was and could use that to her benefit. She’d given it an hour or two, well after the dot had ceased to speed along at a breakneck pace. Taking this as her cue to get moving once more, she’d tracked him to this shady corner of Coruscant, a place where all the buildings looked decrepit, crumbling, and ready to collapse at the slightest disturbance.
Astraea had prowled the streets searching and staying well out of sight of any passerby (a rarity) or someone who just might happen to be peering out their window at that time. The signal had finally led her to a nondescript building, which looked no different from any of those surrounding it. She’d watched it silently for a long, uneventful while. After all, there was the chance that the tracker had attached to the speeder, or had been removed between then and now. Her patience was rewarded though, when she finally caught a glimpse of him in the building. Assured that she was in the right place, she snuck into the building across the street via a shady, half-hidden back entrance, making sure to cover her tracks and that no one saw her enter. Luckily, the place was vacant; it was a run-down, ramshackle building, and Astraea was half afraid that she’d step on a crack and the whole thing would come down around her. Finding a room that faced the street, she left Syria at the door to watch her back while she situated herself at a narrow fault which was just wide enough to see through…and wedge the muzzle of a gun into. She’d decided to grab it on her way over to ‘aid her’ in speeding up this operation. The difference though, was in her choice of ammunition. Instead of rounds or bolts, her weapon was loaded with tranquilizer darts, potent enough to take down a large person within a few minutes, tops. It generally wasn't her style to use weapons, but then again, this wasn't just any ordinary target either. She’d been sitting here at least half an hour now, unmoving, waiting for just the right opportunity. For once, she was glad that the people here, for the most part, kept their shutters tightly closed, since it blocked out nearly all the light to the room she occupied, making it dark enough so that she was invisible to any people outside. It was time to wrap up this game of cat-and-mouse.